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Subject: Watching == training?

Author: Vladimir Medvedev

Date: 01:46:13 07/12/02


Last months I spend much time watching how my chess engine plays blitz against
other programs. I also have seen many blitz and lighting games between strongest
engines (GambitTiger, DeepFritz etc.) Now I notice unexpected improvement in my
own blitz strength both agains humans and computers (may be, up to 50 or even 75
ELO). Very funny for me, because I did not studying chess or analyzing much more
than usually.

What do you think - can only watching (not analyzing!) games of strong players
improve somebody's strength? I have read somewhere that similar methods are used
in some sport games like tennis, tabletennis or volley-ball: some kind of
"muscle memory" is stimulated when sportsman sits on the bench and looks at
flying ball trying to predict its trajectory.



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